Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next president will have to be not only qualified (by the Corporation's criteria) but also flexible, like able, innovative, brash, and yes, more than a little crazy...
Though some traditionalists would like to dismiss Chance as a brash upstart, at 30 he is actually a year older than Stephens was when he helped design the 1937 Cup winner. Ranger. And, like the old master, he is very much to the manner born. A product of Philadelphia's Main Line, Chance has been a water baby "since my mother dropped me overboard when I was two." His father won a yachting gold medal in the 1952 Olympics. Sisters Jan and Elli are top small-boat skippers, while Uncle Henry is a noted ocean racer. Brit Jr. began...
They made their own sound-laughter, interminable rapping, impromptu guitar-plucking, the blare of transistor radios, and finally a makeshift concert by nondescript local bands, with amplifiers powered by two ice-cream trucks. The most distinctive note was the brash hawking of drugs. "Good black hashish for $3.50!" shouted one youth. Countered a bearded pusher: "Buy one tab of acid and get a free tab of smack!" Kids on bad trips were treated by volunteer physicians, and were urged over a makeshift public-address system to "bring a few joints for the doctors." As the week progressed, drug abuse became...
Aggressive Team. New Zealand-born Arnett, now 35, and German-born Faas, now 37, arrived in Viet Nam for A.P. on the same day in 1962. Often they worked as a reporting team. On the surface, they may seem too alike for compatibility. Arnett is brash, aggressive; Faas is gruff, Prussianly efficient. But together they produced some spectacular results. Among them: the 1965 disclosure that U.S. and South Vietnamese forces were experimenting with non-lethal gas; last year's exclusive on Alpha Company, the U.S. Army unit that balked at an order to advance. Individually, they did equally well...
...going to get the weakest guy on our side of the aisle to offer the motion," he told a fellow Republican. He picked Donald Riegle Jr. of Michigan, 32, a dove who Ford accurately figured would provoke maximum opposition to the doves' own cause. Riegle is a brash young second-term Republican who has offended members of the House by open criticism of his seniors. "They really had it wired," one dove said when he heard of Ford's choice. "They got this potato head to make the motion...